.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, arrived at the International Spaceport Station Wednesday, delivering its own number of locals to 12 for the 13-day handover duration.After a two-orbit, three-hour quest to the terminal, the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft instantly dropped anchor to the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet element at 3:32 p.m. EDT. The space probe gone for 12:23 p.m. EDT (9:23 p.m. Baikonur opportunity) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA's coverage of hatch opening will stream at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company's web site. Hatch position is scheduled to start at 5:50 p.m. Learn how to flow NASA material with a selection of systems, consisting of social networks.As soon as aboard, the trio will participate in Exploration 71 team participants, consisting of NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, and also Suni Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, as well as Oleg Kononenko. Expedition 72 will certainly start Monday, Sept. 23, upon the shift of Dyson, Chub, and also off-going station commander Kononenko, accomplishing a six-month remain for Dyson as well as a year-long trip for Chub and Kononenko.Pettit, Ovchinin, and also Vagner will definitely invest roughly 6 months aboard the orbital outstation advancing medical study as Exploration 71/72 crew members before going back to The planet in the springtime of 2025. This is actually Pettit as well as Ovchinin's fourth spaceflight as well as Vagner's 2nd.During the course of Exploration 72, 2 brand-new teams will arrive aboard the space station, including NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 introducing in September, followed by Crew-10, set up for launch in February 2025..Adhere To Pettit on X throughout his mission and acquire the latest space station crew information on Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More about International Space Station research study and also functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Joshua Finch/ Claire O'SheaHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov/ claire.a.o'shea@nasa.gov.Leah CheshierJohnson Space Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.